| A shipping terminal is a commercial hub where ships from international ports of call and domestic trains and trucks converge to deposit or pickup containers for import and export. A large influx of container traffic at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, is creating massive congestion. The predicted surge in growth will not only result in costly delays at the terminal itself but place additional stress on an already overloaded regional transportation system. There exists a need for a generic high-level computer model that can be used by port operators to execute simulation scenarios and make decisions in regards to overall container throughput.; In this project, a Terminal Simulator has been created. The Terminal Simulator is an object-oriented, discrete event-based simulation system implemented with the C# programming language and can be executed on a Microsoft .NET platform. It is a software tool used to study how inbound and outbound trains, ships and trucks carrying shipping containers for import and export, affect the flow of containers through a shipping terminal. |
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